FROM G. P. Putnam's Sons comes a good, plain three-volume edition of Macaulay's Essays. The volumes are on a good quality of thin paper and well bound, and add one more worthy set to these perennially popular essays. The price, five dollars, is a fair one, and should enable all hitherto without these essays to obtain them in a becoming form. GEORGE GISSING, the English novelist, died December 28th. He was born in England November 22, 1857. His life was a hard one and not full of what the world calls success. He had only a middle-class sort of education, not going to college. The first years after he left school were spent in travel on the Continent, where he gained a mastery over several languages and secured much material for his later writings. On his return from the Continent, he became a school teacher, but was forced to give up the work because of ill health. When he began his literary career, Gissing was so poor that he did not know where to find his next meal. For two years he fought against poverty, and then resolved that literature alone would not support him. He became a private tutor, but continued to write much. In 1880 his first published novel, entitled "Workers in the Dawn," was printed. It did not at the time have a large sale, but it was reviewed favorably. Four years later, "The Unclassed" appeared, and was an immediate success. "Demos," his next novel, gained him great praise, though bringing him little money. The book dealt with English Socialism. The work which was regarded as his best by the author was The Nether World," which was published in 1889, and dealt with the lowest forms of London life. Several more works of greater or less success were published up to 1891, when Gissing found himself in financial difficulties. He tried to write something which would take, meanwhile supporting himself by selling his own collection of books to dealers. When he finished "New Grub Street," he parted with the manuscript for £150. The book sold well, and from this time on he had fair success as a writer of rather morbid fiction. ELIZABETH WORMELEY LATIMER, novelist, writer of historical works, and a well-known contributor to the magazines, died at her home in Baltimore, Md., January 4th. She was the daughter of the late Rear Admiral Wormeley of the English navy, and was born in London July 26, 1822. Her first literary work was a novel, "Forrest Hill," that was published in London in 1849. She published two other novels, “Amabel" and "Our Cousin Veronica," before 1856, shortly after which she married Randolph Brandt Latimer, a well-known American engineer, who died only last Christmas eve. After her marriage, her pen remained idle for nearly twenty years. In 1876 she began to write short stories and sketches for the magazines. At the time she died she had about half finished 'Germany in the Nineteenth Century." Mrs. Latimer came of distinguished ancestry. Her father's mother was the sister of Edmund Randolph, aide-de-camp to General George Washington and the first attorney-general. Her paternal grandfather was a captain in the body-guard of King George III. During the reign of King Louis Philippe, she spent much time at the French court, and witnessed the return of Napoleon's body from St. Helena. FROM the Arthur H. Clark Company comes the ninth volume in their elaborate and complete history of the Philippine Islands. This volume covers the period 1593-1597, and like its predecessors is remarkable for the extraordinary care and research shown in finding documents. JOHN R. CARLING, the author of "The Shadow of the Czar," a recent popular novel which ran through five editions, has written another romance, "The Viking's Skull," which Little, Brown & Company will publish late in February. 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